skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after a brown recluse bite, I still will not harm spiders and generally let them be, unless they keep trying to drown themselves in my shower, in which case it is Spider Rescue Time.

One spider took up residence in an upper corner of my shower during a time when I had a bizarrely intractable issue with drain flies. All well and good. We developed a routine: I had a series of taps on the stall I would deliver, which was Shower Spider's cue to retreat to the web. I then showered and left multiple large drops of water on the nearby ledge to drink. At all times I would fling drain flies (and other randomly encountered bugs) into the web for devouring.

Shower Spider died one day and I was never able to determine why. Water and bugs were delivered by me on the regular. We had a really good working relationship. Other Shower Spiders have come and gone, but the first one was a real trooper.
In addition to the whole fox guarding the henhouse issue, this doesn't address the primary harms of user tracking: That it's just bad for society that people are targeted and advertised to on this level, as it fosters filter bubbles and encourages unhealthy behaviors.

Tracking a group of 1,000 people to cater bad political ads isn't meaningfully better than targeting 1,000 individuals with bad political ads.

Targeted advertising needs to be treated like unfair gambling practices. Banned across the board, and the industry that remains needs to be heavily regulated and forced to be completely transparent about the process.
One thing people don’t understand very well is that charging time is not linear - it takes a LOT longer to charge the last 1% than the first 1%. This is important during road trips.

On a typical trip from SF to LA in our Model 3 with 300 miles range, you would think you would stop once “for gas” and charge to 100% as that is the mental model coming from a gas car. However, it takes ~45-60 mins to charge to 100% and only ~10-12 mins to charge to 50%, so the much better option is to make 2 stops along the way and only charge to 50% each time.

When you look at it from that perspective, you need to take 10 mins to stretch your legs every 2-2.5 hours of driving or so, which really isn’t a big deal at all and probably good for you. Using that strategy an indefinitely long road trip in an EV really isn’t a burden at all.
That page list every incident of any kind, including things like bird strikes and hijackings, which aren't think I would expect to affect one brand more than the other.

Crucially, this also doesn't normalize to the quantities of planes flying. If Boeing makes up 70% of the global fleet, but only 65% of incidents, then that would mean they were safer rather than not.

Airbus has delivered more planes than Boeing in the last two years but I'm having trouble finding statistics on overall fleet makeups going back further than that.
I lived in Helsinki for a while. It's not a great place to be homeless because despite recently mild winters, it's just not a nice place to be living outside when most of the year it can drop to freezing temperatures (or well below) at night. Having people on the street freezing to death in the middle of the winter is not something that is very practical. And of course the whole system ensures that people are mostly taken care off regardless of their issues (alcohol, drugs, psychological issues, etc.). Food, shelter, medical care etc. are easily accessible.
Netscape should have them "herpes" instead of "cookies".
A decade ago my friend and I built our “better digg” with a box at the top that cycled through new submissions to help those new stories gain traction. You need a downvote or skip button.
Don't forget the Renault TWIZY.
Does Twitter always post the AMP link?
And what happens when FireFox decides to drop this option 1-2 years into the future? I reckon they'll give time to change the email address on all the pages one used it for, but still...

nvm, it's in the FAQ:

"What happens if Mozilla shuts down the Firefox Relay service?

We will give you advance notice that you need to change the email address of any accounts that are using Relay aliases."

Note that one cannot reply using this service (yet). So the whole anonymity is gone as soon as one wants to contact some service without disclosing the real address (?)
Noise Reduction Using WebAssembly
China's Moon samples available, White House Moon rock and a dying magnetic field
You can just create a channel in discord and create a webhook for it then add that webhook to your GitHub repo on the settings(content-type should be Jain) then immediately when any change happens you’ll be notified
The problem with this platform is the sides speak only in relation to the topic but do not rebut each other. I think there needs to be forced rebuttals and I'd one side cannot mount a defense against a rebuttal it should be highlighted, to better illustrate which side has the weight of evidence
This does not support your claim. It's pretty clear that you didn't have the evidence before you made the claim, and you don't have it now.
You have to attach that "JWT token" (heh) with e.g JS which makes it vulnerable to XSS, doesn't it?
after verifying on Wikipedia I can only conclude that you somehow misinterpreted my comment, as it addresses misuse of api by circumventing authentication, rate limits etc.

That's entirely unrelated to unauthenticated and public APIs and their possible ToS relevance.
As spacex mature, is the science fiction that use mirrors to adjust sun energy possible? Could this solve global warming?
I don’t. I’ll do some research. The origin of this concept comes from discussions I had on identity, specifically the ability to separate the “self” from the rest of the universe, or to isolate some quantity of stuff and claim it’s an apple. Ultimately the universe has no concept of such boundaries.

[update] the study of this concept seems to be semiotics, which examines the creation and use of symbols. I don’t know what branch of semiotics examines the creation of the concepts of unity and succession.
It is probably much harder being homeless in Finland than in San Francisco just from the weather. San Francisco is relatively mild, even in winter. Finland in winter gets pretty cold, and people are in severe danger of death or loss of body parts from frostbite.
> Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Highest Paid Employee In The Entire U.S. Federal Government

The US really needs to hire a football coach to fix this scandalous situation.
The law makes it mandatory to give a 28 days notice for every tweak of the search algorithm.

I’m pretty sure that Google tweaks their algorithm more than 13 times a year.

This is what makes the deal inacceptable to Google.

On the money front, they just accepted to finance news sites in France. As long as they make more money than they lose, they won’t leave.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/google-inks-agreement-in-f...
Will be added to the list of domains people cannot use to sign up for accounts. In my experience, this only works on small sites.
Maybe requiring a comment to downvote? Like you click the downvote and instead of it actually downvoting, it attaches the downvote to the comment box and requires you to leave a reply justifying your downvote.
I am not clear on that - are you saying that if you were to somehow hypothetically replace all your car travel with plane travel for an equivalens amount of time, your chance of death would go down by 100x? I am just thinking about it, and I don't think that it works out that way.
Same in Belgium. I don't use whatsapp, but had it installed. When I said I don't use it - people gave me weird looks and were annoyed. Now this has been replaced by a "oh so you use signal?" reaction.

The whole situation has seen mainstream media attention here, which helps a lot I guess.
I do think this can be useful for collaboration with non technical users. At an old job we did our translations in google sheets, but the copy on our website was in JSON. So I wrote a script to load the CSV, split it up, then add quotes and commas to make it valid JSON.

The one step I never automated was the export to CSV from google sheets. It might be possible but they’re API was a bit opaque. Maybe it’s easier now
We use two terms for homeless here. Strictly speaking if we just use the term homeless you're correct. 79% of them are not like that [ARA Asunnottomat 2019]. They're people like students bunking in a friends bed without a valid address or other short term issues, like the social security making a mistake, but they're eventually rectified. This means the homelessness has lasted for less than a year.

21% are long term homeless. And that's what people generally mean when they collegially use the term homeless. That's defined as homeless that has lasted for more than a year and has significant social or health component, such as substance abuse or mental illness. The thing about mental illness is that there is also treatment for them. The solution is different for them as for the substance abusers.

If you ever see a Finn begging it's pretty much always an alcoholic who wants more beer. That's because the mentally ill cannot really beg as they're either receiving treatment or if they have unfortunately slipped trough the cracks of the system they're also unable to beg for any extended period.

As for the scale of this problem. 2019 there were 961 persons listed in the long term homeless category. That's out of a population of 5.518 million in 2019. That's 0.017% of the whole population. Also, even out of them 584 live with someone, just not with an official address. They wouldn't be counted as homeless in US.

The actual amount of people in street on that category was 177. That's 0.003% of the population.
All of these things except "without intermediaries" are already solved with intermediaries. Intermediaries are desirable: they solve problems so that the end users don't have to do it. It's fundamental to programming, in fact: you don't handwrite machine code, you use a language with libraries that gets interpreted or compiled to run on an operating system that provides lots of useful facilities and abstractions so that you don't have to care whether the machine is connected via a 3Com 905b or a Lucent Orinoco, and the same code that worked over those obsolete interfaces still works over a 10gig fiber NIC.

In particular, intermediaries allow people to fix mistakes. And people make mistakes all the time.

People like banking; it's individual banks that they hate. Better regulation fixes that. Unregulated transactions are terrible: the entire history of finance proves that people will lie, cheat and defraud each other if given half a chance.

Financial safety comes from the ability of a trustable third party to adjudicate and correct mistakes and disputes.

If you want to compile a credit rating, you need an accurate history of transactions. Blockchains don't give you accurate histories, they give you timestamped signed logs of entries that are really really difficult to amend. "This landlord reported that I was late on rent but I've never lived in that state" is a complaint that a credit agency must accept and evaluate.

Eliminating notaries: the purpose of a notary is not just to say "this event happened at this time" but to say "I witnessed this event happening at this time". A blockchain can't do that. You need to trust the notary as well as the notary's log, and random people adding entries doesn't make them trustable.

Record of private property and deeds: you literally want a single authoritative database here, where every write operation is done by a trusted person.

Each of these cases is not "we need a blockchain" but "it's good to have a signed, difficult-to-forge journal that can be inspected and verified".

Your last point is basically "we don't know what cryptocurrencies are good for."
Anyone interested in this should read Ben Thompson’s lucid analysis of the underlying economics: https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...

The short version is that the whole “google and facebook stole news and profit off it” narrative is false. But because the media has an immense conflict of interest in reporting on itself, they spread this narrative.

Have a look at the chart in the medium article. Did circulation fall when google or facebook were founded or became popular? Nope, the decline started in the late 1980s.

What about relative mindshare per capita? Turns out newspaper circulation per capita has been in a steady decline since 1950! See this chart: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1316847491808219138...

You can’t even spot google and Facebook or the internet in the circulation per capita chart. It’s just a steady downwards decline.

What role do facebook and google play for media today? They send them traffic. So much so that newspapers complained mightily when google news pulled out of spain and france. They need the traffic! Meanwhile news is not how google makes its money.

Michael Geist did an analysis of how newspapers are shared on social media. It turns out the bulk of the shares were from the newspapers’ own page: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2020/10/how-can-linking-to-an-ar...

It is perfectly valid to dislike Google or dislike Facebook. But on this issue too many otherwise reasonable people fall for the media’s line that it is the media that supports social media giants. This just isn’t so and none of the data support it. Indeed for social media networks arguably Instagram, Snapchat and Tiktok are successful precisely because they are set up not to have news and instead they’re just fun to use.

A functioning press is vital for society. But as Thompson says if we want to support it why not subsidize it directly? It is lunacy to pretend that the value exchange us from news to social media rather than the reverse.

That Newscorp is the beneficiary in Australia is additional spice to the story but this issue is even broader than that.
If it does, I don't want to know. There are a few hobbies where developing a sense of taste seems to be really expensive, and wine and whiskey are among them.
I think this is the main J repo [0]. (Though I’m not sure if it’s any more readable.) Possibly interesting that Tavmem is the maintainer of Kona (open source K3/4). I guess he’s comfortable with all APL/J/K languages.

[0] https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
Smart watches can detect symptoms of Covid-19 before wearer knows they know
TikTok’s algorithm seems to work well for this.
> get Google IPs blacklisted (yes this happens,

This

> there are no special breaks for Google).

and this are not the same thing. There are absolutely "special breaks" for Google, particularly (though not solely) since they are now the server of choice for a huge percentage of the email being sent and received, whether @gmail.com or on Gsuite accounts of various types.

So even if there were some kind of massive spam event, Google isn't going to block emails from its own IP blocks or domains from reaching Gmail or Gsuite customers. And frankly, I would be shocked if any of the various DNS blocklists that people use for determining who's a dirty spammer would actually put a Google IP block on there without massive and obvious changes in Googles mode of operation.

Meanwhile, us mere mortals, if we dare to try to set up our own mail server, can be listed in a blacklist because of a) something the previous owner of the IP address did, b) something someone else in the same class B block did, or c) something that was never expected before, but now because of escalation by spammers, it's required without any documentation. And then the blacklist just doesn't respond to requests for reconsideration or elaboration because obviously, we're dirty spammers, and why should we be listened to?
Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants
It's just a db, so your data is where the db is running. You could have a central db storing your data and your local client could sync periodically, or you can have a p2p architecture if you want. I use Noms as an embedded db in my project, where syncing happens between p2p nodes.
Another idea would be to reuse the comment algorithm, which bumps comments straight to the top when they’re created for a very brief period to see if they get any traction.

I guess that it wouldn’t necessarily have to be the top for posts.
nnhackernews on a 5min refresh is as optimally anti-FOMO as I can get it.
Good luck when this service goes down. But otherwise: Sounds great!

Questions:

1. Is this new?

2. Why just 5 relays? How can I get more?

3. Is something like that available from 1Password? Would be a great addition.
Just to add another useless anecdotal data point along with the rest: so far in the past month I have seen the bulk of my daily messaging contacts in the UK join Signal. Most of my existing conversation groups are still on WhatsApp but new chat groups are starting on Signal instead.

Where a request of 'can we do this chat on Signal?' would have been greeted with confused 'what are you talking about?' responses in December are now either not a problem or being answered with something along the lines of 'we would, but <X> is still only on WhatsApp'. This is not just techies, but parents in my kids school, biz contacts and investors, and even my retired parents who now use signal to chat and exchange photos with the rest of the family.

It is not much now, but that sound you hear above and those small chunks of rock and ice bouncing past might just be a growing avalanche. Social networks have faced this sort of threat before. Sometimes, like Google+, it fails to catch on and reach critical mass, and sometimes MySpace finds itself on the wrong side of the switch to a new default and disappears.
you're right, the value of the broken car itself is irrelevant to whether it is economic to repair. what is relevant is the cost of a reasonable replacement. if it costs $2000 to to fix the car, you might be better off scrapping it and buying a different used car with that $2000 that actually runs.
It's pretty common knowledge to be a slur in the US too
I dont get why this is #1 post. It is absolutely non surprising.
You presume that their biological processes are similar to us, which isn't necessarily true. It almost seems unlikely to be true.

If most of those diseases can't make the jump from a human to a fish or a bird that's from the same planet and even the same evolutionary line, it seems unlikely that we would be susceptible to each other's diseases. This isn't like when Europeans brought Small Pox to the New World; those were still humans.
Services like this usually get banned by a lot of websites for various reasons. One solution could be to rotate domains from time to time, but I doubt they gonna do this.
Well, anything else with rising temperatures would be an amazing discovery indeed.
I also drive a 2008 Prius with the original battery. Only things I've had to replace after 180k miles is 12v battery, oil, oil filter, air filter, tyres, wiper blades, lights, brake pads and hand brake cable.

Basically things that regularly need changing, although the hand brake cable is probably the exception to that.

Most reliable car I've ever owned.
Negative childhood experiences with paper wasps left me with a healthy fear of insect stings, but after watching these videos I'm surprised to see just how much work it takes to get the insect to actually deliver a sting.

I mean, many of these videos start with him handling the insect, allowing it to crawl on him, and quickly devolve into "holding it against his body with forceps".
I'm just thinking the same thing.
BTW the excess energy can be reflected to orbit labs or moon to make something more interesting (reactors, generators, water electrolysis etc)
Reflective white poles that are covered up are no longer acting in a reflecting manner. If they are not acting in a reflective manner, since they're being covered up, what good are they?

In my mind, geostationary satellites with reflective properties are a solution to a symptom but not to the root cause. I was always taught to fix the root cause of problems, not their symptoms. Therefore I find your strategy to be sup optimal.

Having said that, I agree that if we find the root cause to be unsolvable, we should look into fixing some of the symptoms instead.
> The problem is that it continues to be the lowest common denominator for a lot of the world to stay connected from a telecoms perspective.

Not just the developing world. The amount of money needed to rebuild our current telco grids with modern, designed from scratch infrastructure is in the hundreds of billions of euros range - in a time where money is short in supply.

Personally, I believe that even in 2030 there will still be widespread 2G networks as "last fallback" for generations-old IoT devices that simply can't do anything else...
The notion of a "strong collective identity through education and the cultural institutions" that "isolates the individual from his personal beliefs and justifies his suffering" is not uniquely Eastern. It has a long history in Europe, with mixed results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_nationalism_in_Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationalism
That is one of the reasons I switched to Migadu. The other being cost, as I have several domains that receive very little mail, so the cost structure on Migadu is very attractive.
Not the parent, but my view on Filecoin hasn't changed since this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23015249

Early adopters are maybe going to profit something because of the money they got from the ICO and some VC, but the economics don't add up.
Microsoft wants to replace artists with AI
Not really, but it is in the top 10 world wide (top 5 if you consider stars pr. capita).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874471

Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII (bbc.com)

Which makes sense, tons of unemployment and work from home means far less emissions to be expected. This must be great for climate change? How come we're losing ice faster? That doesnt make sense. It should be the coldest year for a long time right?

https://www.space.com/nasa-confirms-2020-hottest-year-on-rec...

So the fix to climate change is reducing emissions. We do that because of a pandemic and it makes climate change worse?
> Not only do they tend to select larger cities, but also warmer cities.

As a trucker, my view is mostly from the interstate.

The most homeless I see in my travels all over the country is I-5 in California, Oregon and Washington, and CA 99.

It's pretty cold in Washington and Oregon right now. Even California at night.

Tents, tarps, sleeping bags, on both sides of the freeway fence, or inside interchange cloverleafs.

Not judging their condition or their person, I don't know them. It looks pretty rough.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, that's effectively impossible to achieve for the vast majority of online businesses. Google, in particular, can destroy the ability of nearly anyone else online to do business, with no meaningful recourse, no accountability, and no consequences.
What advantage does a parser generator provide over a parser combinator library like nom?
Transmission R&R on anything from 1978 is probably gonna cost less than much more "routine" work on anything from 2020.
It does not scale because Elon Musk said so? That HD mapping doesn't scale is the biggest trope in autonomous driving that I see Tesla fans repeating everywhere. Google, for example, has large scale mapping experience and their street view cars have been carrying Lidar sensors for years now. They've already mapped a bunch of cities in the US.

Tesla itself uses HD maps for things like intersections, traffic lights and so on. It's just not at the level of detail others use it for.
You could try to prevent people from reaching such state in the first place, for future occurrences.